Illinois Senate Bill 2309 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)
Status: Failed on January 13 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates the Unidentified Patient Act. Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Elisha Brittman Law. Provides that upon the arrival of an unidentified patient into a hospital's emergency department the hospital shall take specified efforts towards identifying the patient. Requires a hospital to contact the local law enforcement agency and request that a missing person report be completed for an unidentified patient if the specified efforts are not possible or are unsuccessful. Provides that local law enforcement should be requested to enter an unidentified patient into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Crime Information Center database. Requires hospital staff to contact local law enforcement to perform fingerprinting services in an effort to identify an unidentified patient. Provides that hospital staff shall make a referral to the hospital's public information officer to obtain specified identifying materials and submit them to local media outlets if the fingerprinting services are not possible or are unsuccessful. Provides that if a hospital receives a claim from an individual of being an unidentified patient's next of kin, a DNA sample may be collected from the unidentified patient and the individual and verified either on-site or at an associated laboratory, but must be provided on a voluntary basis and shall be used solely to help identify the unidentified patient and any familial relations. Provides that if law enforcement requests an unidentified patient's information to help identify a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or missing person, the hospital and hospital personnel must disclose only the information allowed under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Defines terms.

UNIDENTIFIED PATIENT

Sen. Patricia Van Pelt [D]	Sen. John Curran [R]	Sen. Rachelle Crowe [D]	Sen. Jacqueline Collins [D]
Sen. Mattie Hunter [D]	Sen. Laura Murphy [D]	Sen. Patrick Joyce [D]	Sen. Suzanne Glowiak Hilton [D]
Sen. Christopher Belt [D]	Sen. Laura Fine [D]	Sen. Ann Gillespie [D]	Sen. Linda Holmes [D]
Sen. Heather Steans [D]	Sen. Pat McGuire [D]	Sen. Emil Jones [D]	Sen. Kimberly Lightford [D]
Sen. Don Harmon [D]	Sen. William Cunningham [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-13	Senate	Session Sine Die
2020-05-15	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading/Passage Deadline Established As May 31, 2020
2020-05-07	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 29, 2020
2020-04-30	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 22, 2020
2020-04-23	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 15, 2020
2020-04-12	Senate	Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments
2020-03-25	Senate	Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 7, 2020
2020-02-25	Senate	Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading February 26, 2020
2020-02-25	Senate	Do Pass Public Health; 008-000-000
2020-01-28	Senate	Postponed - Public Health
2020-01-22	Senate	Assigned to Public Health
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Bill Cunningham
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Don Harmon
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Pat McGuire
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Heather A. Steans
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Linda Holmes
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Ann Gillespie
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura Fine
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Christopher Belt
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Patrick J. Joyce
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Mattie Hunter
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachelle Crowe
2019-11-14	Senate	Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. John F. Curran
2019-11-14	Senate	Referred to Assignments
2019-11-14	Senate	First Reading
2019-11-14	Senate	Filed with Secretary by Sen. Patricia Van Pelt

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=2309&GAID=15&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=108&GA=101
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/101/SB/10100SB2309.htm